If I was limited to 7 baits to get me through a whole year of smallmouth fishing, these would be my picks:

Suspending Jerkbait

Super Fluke

Stalker 3.25" tube

Spinnerbait

Spider Grub

Storm Wiggle Wart

Sammy 100 or 115

What are your favorites?

Thanks in advance.

zoom super fluke

zoom ultravibe speed craw

yum crawbug

zoom tube

powerbait 4inch powerworm

heddon tiny topwater torpedo

not in any order..all my smallmouth fishing is in rivers also.

strikeking 1/8th ounce buzzbait

zell pop in shad or chartreuse color

shallow crayfish colored crankbait

white terminator T1 spinnerbait

watermelon double tail hula grub

yum houdini worm watermelon

rapala xrap

caught many 3-5lb smallies out of one river on these baits love them.

lucky craft jerkbaits

green pumpkin tube

white spinnerbait

red lipless crankbait

and thats all you really need

Storm thundercraw phantom chart

bandit series 100 pearl red eye

bandit series 100 chart/black back

zoom finesse worms

I can catch fish with these all year, although looking at my boxes you wouldn't know it

Rebel Wee Crawfish

Bass Pro Shops XPS Rattlin' Shad

Berkley Power Grub, 3" Brown Pumpkin

Panther Martin Spinner, size 9

Rapala Skitterpop

Cavitron Buzzbait

Pepper Hawg Spinnerbait 3/8 ounce White Skirt, Gold and Silver Tandem Blades

Was hard to leave out tube jigs and some others though.

tube

rebel teeny wee crawdad

chartreuse spinnebait

Zoom fin-s fish

grub on 1/4 oz. round jig head(bluegill,white,pumpkinseed colors)

black or olive wooly bugger(flyrod)

jerkbaits

senkos

All year

Yum Dingers

Chartruse Spinnerbaits

Lucky Craft pointer

Chartruese or white spinnerbait

White cranks

Tubes

C/R senkos

Tube baits

beaver baits

berkley sabertail on a 3/8 oz Gman's weedless jig

All in green pumpkin color.It's hard to beat a tube bait here for smallmouths.

#1 for me - suspending jerkbait.

There's nothing like jerkin' it along super-fast, feeling an aggressive, line-stopping strike, then watching a p'd off smallie go airborn  ;D

In no particular order:

Spinnerbait

Rattlin Rapalas

X-Raps

Shad Raps

I bought alot of baits this off-season, maybe I'll have some new baits to add to my list.

Falcon

tube

wiggle wart

If I only had those two baits I'd be content, although a lipless crank bait is up there as well.

what color wiggles do you like?  I have a ton of them, and my buddy buys and resells storm as well....gonna hit up the smallies this weekend after i have had my fill of stripers.    (i promise, no wood plank for me!)

any craw pattern-

I have to go slightly to the left on this one.

I choose topwaters, not because they catch smallies the best, but because when a smallie hits a topwater you'll never forget it.

Absolutley amazing!!

LC jerkbait

Spinnerbait

Gunnish

Baby brush hog

Senko

Zoom finesse worm

Eakins jig

Crayfish colored crank

Allen

strike king red eye shad bleeding chrome blue

strike king rocket shad chartruese skirt

strike king coffee tube wartermelon red flake with jig head

zoom brush hog watermelon red c/rig

zoom shakey head worm on spot remover

gycb Kreature watermolon red green flake c/rig

Grub

Fluke

Drop-shot

Tube

Jig

Spoon

Silver Buddy

#1 Mizmo 3 1/2" tube (Kent's Classic, squash green)

#2 GYCB 5" Grub

#3 Fat Ika

#4 GYCB Hula Grub (single tail)

#5 Lucky Craft Pointer 100

#6 Other jerkbaits: Rapala Husky Jerk (blue & silver); X-Rap (white)

#7 Zara Spook or LC Sammy

8-)

Crank baits

Drop shots

Husky Jerks

3.5 Tubes

Football head jigs

Robo worms, robo worms, robo worms! especially Aarons Magic

1) Case Plastics Jack's Worm

2) Zoom Fat Albert Grub on an 1/8oz head w/ 3/0 Gammy hook

3) Strike King Bleeding Bait tube

4) Booyah Pro Finesse Boo Bug jig w/ Netbait Tiny Paca Chunk

5) Senko wacky

6) Zoom Superfluke

7) Spinnerbait chart/w chart blades

IF their hitting it, a PopR is awesome, The smallies can come out of the water with such gusto, you see some impressive strikes.

In rivers:

spitt'n image

senko

Baby paca craw

spinnerbait

In lakes (deeper water):

Spider Grub

Carolina rig lizard

tube